EMC 2837, Daily Paragraph Editing, Grade 7

Why Daily Paragraph Editing?

This book is designed to help students master and retain grade-level skills in
language mechanics and expression through focused, daily practice. The passages
represent the writing forms that students encounter in their daily reading and
writing activities across the curriculum. A weekly writing activity allows students
to apply the skills they have been practicing throughout the week.

What’s in This Book?

Daily Paragraph Editing contains lessons for 36 weeks, with a separate lesson
for each day. Each week’s lessons for Monday through Thursday consist of
individual reproducible paragraphs that contain errors in the following skills:

• capitalization
• language usage
• punctuation
• spelling, and more

Each Friday lesson consists of a writing prompt that directs students to write
in response to the week’s composition. This gives students the opportunity
to apply the skills they have practiced during the week in their own writing.
Students gain experience writing in a variety of forms, with the support of
familiar models.

How Does It Work?

Students correct the errors in each daily portion of the composition by
marking directly on the page. A reproducible sheet of Proofreading Marks
(see page 168) helps familiarize students with the standard form for marking
corrections on written text. Full-page Editing Keys show corrections for all
errors. Error Summaries help teachers identify the targeted skills in each week’s
lessons so teachers can plan to review or introduce the specific skills needed by
their students.

A reproducible Language Handbook (pages 169–176) outlines the usage and
mechanics rules for students to follow as they edit. The Handbook includes
examples to help familiarize students with how the conventions of language
and mechanics are applied in authentic writing.

When corrected and read together, the paragraphs that make up the